Scottish Documentary Institute Movies

Cunenk grew up as a girl trapped in a boy’s body. She could not wait to leave her village and become a performer.

Bill Drummond, once the most notorious man in pop music, now travels around the world baking cakes, building beds and shining shoes as part of a...

When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely-seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wild flowers, he decides to reclaim the...

Soon after her ‘big break’, Italian actress Nadya Cazan disappeared. Ottica Zero follows Nadya from her rejection of the monetary-based...

A palpably rendered audiovisual essay draws together the distinct sensibilities of filmmakers Peter Mettler (The End of Time) and Emma Davie (I am...

Livingston skateboard park became internationally legendary. Forty years on, the park is no longer a favourite. That is until a group of school...

Breathing is about the thin space between life and death. 34-year-old Neil Platt plans his own funeral, muses about the meaning of life and the...

An intimate portrait of three parents trying to come to terms with their missing children and struggling to move on with their own lives.

As a family from a politically and physically divided island, Meray and her father developed extremely opposite views to each other. She travels from...

Fitting explores the relationship between the director, an amputee, and her prosthetist, by their contrasting experiences during the making of a...

Untung and Nesti really love their 6 year old son who has autism. Their daily life becomes more challenging because both of their parents are...

A remote and wild island on the west coast of Scotland is home to a small group of people that live in deep connection with the land, the sea and the...

At a unique Edinburgh bakery, a community of workers with learning disabilities makes a variety of organic breads for daily delivery to local shops...

The changing face of a pebble beach on the coast of the English channel serves as a backdrop to compare the long history of sea rescue with the...

This rare and intimate portrait explores a young woman’s perspective about living with albinism – a condition which has often made her an...

In her documentary, the Scottish-Syrian director tries to reconcile the two worlds in her head: her fond memories of visiting relatives in Damascus...

On the North East Coast of Scotland, an extraordinary family have turned the previously derelict Bayview hotel into a place of respite for...

Sebastién is a gay acrobat living for the thrill of the circus. Now the oldest acrobat in the troupe, he fears each show could be his last, as...

This rare and intimate portrait explores a young woman’s perspective about living with albinism – a condition which has often made her an...

Mentiras is a visually stunning but profoundly unsettling journey through the world’s largest city. Based on one man’s confession to...